Google AdSense now pays through Western Union Quick Cash to Malaysians

Google AdSense is no doubt one of the world’s best ad network but until now the most annoying thing about it was that it did not allow fast payment methods such as Western Union Money Transfer or wire transfer. The only payment method available was check delivery which could take weeks to reach you. In my case, using standard delivery usually took up to 3 weeks to arrive, not to mention another 4 weeks for the check to clear at my local Maybank branch.

Now, the best news for Malaysians is we can now choose to be paid by Western Union Quick Cash. Western Union Quick Cash is a payment method that allows you to receive your AdSense payments in cash using the Western Union money transfer service. Payments will be available for pick up at our local Western Union Agent the day after they are sent. This means that we won’t have to wait for a check to arrive in the mail. Choosing to receive your payments by Western Union can also cut down on the bank fees and long clearing times associated with depositing checks.

As far as I know many CIMB and RHB bank branches offer Western Union services.

If you wish to get your AdSense payment through Western Union, you need to change your payment options. Here is how you do it:

  1. Login your Google AdSense account.
  2. Go to; My Account > Account Settings.
  3. Click on “Edit”.
  4. After you have clicked on “Edit”, you will see the following screen. On this page, select the option “Setup Western Union Quick Cash”, as shown below.

    Weatern Union

  5. Click on “Continue >>”.
  6. Check on the option that says “I agree that I have a picture ID that matches the contact name above.” If your IC has a different name, then I guess you have a big problem here!
  7. Click on “Save changes”.

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Watch Prison Break, 24 and Lost for free

Folks, good news. You can watch your favorite TV shows, such as Prison Break, 24 and Lost for FREE. You not only have absolute access to these three famous thrilling dramas, there are loads more including the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Family guy, Desperate Housewives, House and Ugly Betty.

LOST
(That’s one of my favorite character, John Locke, played by Terry O’Quinn. He won the Emmy award for his supporting role in LOST)

I know most likely you TV fanatics have ways to watch these movies for FREE anyway, maybe using bitorrent to download them, but TV-video.net is at the very least a good way for you to preview before you spend days downloading them using bitorrent. Right or not?

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Google is now 9 years old

Google, you are now 9 years old already. Be a good boy and serve us good quality and relevant ads please. Yeah, ads that pay US$10 for every click! Hahaha…

Google birthday logos

How do you like Google’s birthday logos over the years above? Read more about Google’s history to understand the world’s most used search engine better. Happy Birthday Google!

Readers, how much is your average CPC? Care to share with us, AdSense newbies? 🙂

Backup your wordpress database the easy way

I know you understand that it’s important to backup your WordPress database but sometimes you say to yourself “Yeah, I will backup my WordPress database tomorrow”. But tomorrow never comes! Ask yourself, when was the last time you did the backup? 3 months ago? 🙂

Database backup

Actually, it’s pretty easy to do a database backup in WordPress itself provided you are using one of the later versions of WordPress. It takes less than 3 minutes in my case since I have a fairly simple blog and not many posts.

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What is your Streamyx speed?

Everyone complain his Internet connection is slow. Those who are using Tmnet dial-up say so… those who are using Streamyx also complain Tmnut is cheating on them because they do not notice any speed improvement, or more precisely constant disconnection especially when they are using Bittorent to download movies! Let’s test our Internet speed today and see if your’s is slower than mine! We use Speedtest.net.

For the uninformed, Speedtest.net is a free broadband speed test with servers located all over the world so that you can get more accurate testings. Get your test results and compare with others from the same area, or even from other parts of the world.

Broadband speed test

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How good are you in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

I hate taking part in tests or quizzes because they require a fair amount of thinking, make my hair grow white! I have never done well in any tests. However, as a blog owner it’s good to know how good you are in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is essential to get your blog or website ranked higher for your target keywords in search engines. Higher ranking means more visitors and that means more revenues from your blog or website! Haha… I love money!

SEO quiz

SEOMOZ, a well known guru in the SEO industry has designed an online quiz for nothing but to test your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) knowledge. The test consists of 75 questions which covers almost every aspect of SEO. I took the test but the first question itself got me stuck for nearly 10 minutes because I couldn’t figure out which of the given list is the least important area in which to include my keyword(s)… to me all of them are fairly important… Haha…

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My girlfriend and I now chat through webcam

Check out my new webcam which I bought from PC Planet in Tesco, Puchong. I know nothing about web cams and the salesman gave me three options. Frankly, the one from AVF looked awesome in the design department, and it felt good in my hands too. I believe it should fit well on a laptop too with its flippable base. However, the salesman who seemed quite IT savvy recommended the other two models as according to him the AVF model doesn’t plug-and-play on Windows Vista, which I am using. You may have problem finding the correct device driver… this didn’t sound good.

Webcam

So, AVF was out. The other two models were easy to decide as one of them looked horrible with 6 LED lights. Although they serve good purpose – to light up when the place is dark, but I don’t really like how it looked. So, it was obvious which one I have chosen.

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Smiley emoticon is 25 today :-)

One of the most widely used emoticon is the cute smiley face which consists of the ubiquitous ‘colon-hyphen-parenthesis’. I believe everyone love to use this especially in emails and blog posts.

Smiley

Do you know how its use started?

Twenty-five years ago, a Carnegie Mellon University professor by the name Scott E. Fahlman sent a message proposing the use of a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a joke marker. It was the earliest recorded use of the smiley face, which has since become ubiquitous with online communication. It has become a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.

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HP Officejet 4355 All-in-One printer, fax, scanner, copier

This post is somewhat overdue as my colleague got this All-in-one HP box which functions as a printer, fax machine, scanner and copier at the same time a couple of months ago. Anyway, he was obviously happy with this purchase as he bought this at a bargained price. It was bought from Tesco at a very affordable price of RM349.

HP Officejet

Actually he was going to get a normal but cheaper Sharp fax machine at RM249 but saw this one when he walked out to pay. A quick calculation made him opt for HP Officejet. Only RM100 more and has so many features. Furthermore, it also uses ink cartridge No 27 which is the same for the other printer in our office. Very smart choice eh? 🙂

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Unitech RF scanner

Not many of us has seen an RF scanner before… not to mention touching and playing with it. Well, I had the opportunity to do just that today and needless to say I had lots of fun with it. Took a couple of pictures too.

RF scanner

The picture above is not very clear because it was taken under indoor lights. But you should be able to see that this gadget is powered by Microsoft Windows… Not sure what specific name is this Windows though… Could it be Windows Mobile. But thought it’s for PDA.

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